This idea just came to me, and I’m not even sure if I’m doing the right thing by asking this… we discuss a particular case study when it’s posted on the forum and suggest/provide feedback based on that case study only.
BUT-Would anyone be interested in starting a category focused on past life regression sessions that didn’t go as expected ? and more importantly, how they were corrected or understood afterward?
I think there’s immense value in discussing the “unsuccessful” sessions too.
We often hear success stories, but the sessions that challenge us can teach just as much, if not more. It could become a space to discuss things like unclear themes, emotional misalignment, overly intellectual clients, ineffective suggestion syntax, symbolic experiences mistaken for literal ones, resistance from the subconscious, or even facilitator assumptions that altered the flow. Sharing how these situations were recognized, reframed, and improved could help practitioners sharpen both technique and intuition. After all, sometimes the subconscious doesn’t say “no” — it just says, “wrong door.”
I personally feel we may not need a separate category, because even within the existing PLR case discussions, all kinds of cases — including the difficult, unclear, or “didn’t go as expected” ones — are already welcome. In many ways, those are the sessions we learn the most from together.
What I really appreciate in your post is the openness to discuss challenges without judgment. That spirit itself strengthens the community and helps all of us grow as practitioners.
We’re all learning, refining, and understanding these experiences collectively — sometimes through the smooth sessions, and sometimes through the ones that make us pause and rethink the execution of the 15 stage process distilled by our beloved dr @venu.
So I’d say all are welcome and that none is an unsuccessful case from a learning perspective.
I feel we as a family of therapist can post all our experiences here so that we can learn from each other whether we label it as successful or not
It will really help us grow as a therapist
Thank you Monesh for taking the time out to read and provide valuable insights.
What if all the stages are not followed as expected ? Sometimes clients come vent out and feel better already and show no interest in going further. Some clients were happy after disposing off traumatic memories and didn’t feel like exploring further. Some clients are hesitant to share history as they are family/friends but still want to try to see if it helps? They went into trance without a theme not sharing everything and later on discarding everything saying ‘it was imagination’!! So all cases are all over the place for me. I don’t see any point in posting incomplete/आधे अधूरे cases but would love to discuss anyway as their stories are pretty interesting and unique and they did get relief when they shared. I feel many a people just feel better already by sharing and listening to themselves narrating and acknowledging their pain.
So after thinking about all these, I wondered if I’m inviting this vibe as a therapist? What am I lacking? What is this trying to tell me? So I gave up finally and decided to ask, if other people also have the same experience? Or if someone wants to share something?
Thanks for posting this my blessed @hc2101
much appreciate your candidness and the aspiration to master PLRT.
What my 14 years experience as PLR therapist taught me is that once the contact with the “Superconscious” has been made, the transformation is inevitable. If the
if this feeling is of a therapist has after executing the 15-stages, then it could be the “artistic dissatisfaction” I suffered this due to which I tried to qualify the 15-stage process so that I knew when to stop.
Otherwise if the therapist has to abort before completion of the 15-stages, repeatedly. Then it might be time to take a break and work on self.
Like Swami Vivekanand said, “Be, and Make”.
The wellbeing of the therapist in all the dimension of their spiritual, mental and physical life is a basic need. The client’s ability to go into a trance is determined by the therapist’s!
Like I keep reminding everyone. This forum is not a place to post success stories. Hospitals are not for healthy people, they are primarily for people who are unwell. This forum is a place for therapists to follow the 15-stage process diligently and post about the blockers. So that we can collectively refine the process.
very good @ushapssk you have captured the real motive behind this forum. There is no success or failure in PLRT, as much a surgeon follows the process and the outcomes are determined by other factors. But luck for us, we have our Masters, the winds of grace are always in our favour, all that we need to do as Therapists is to be a good channel and harness.
bottom line, Sadhana, Sadhana, Sadhana this is the mantra…
Venu Sir, thank you for explaining it so well as always. I had full plan to complete all 15 stages but I didn’t even get to the trance part. Couple of em were satisfied after history taking. It felt more like a counselling session. Clients were so relieved with the emotional release alone and decided not to explore. So in my mind cases are not completed as per the guidelines. But clients were happy. I called it आधे अधूरे as I was craving more as a therapist but again I accepted it as is.
And definitely I need to work on myself, I too have to master the skills and gain knowledge to go within, be better at साधना that’s a life long commitment!
Venu Sir, I guess my whole personality is like that, never satisfied until things are 100% . The zest and craving to go beyond and above is my life force, it keeps me going and I don’t know any other way to live my life and it’s applicable to everything I’m passionate about. I don’t give up and keep pushing. I don’t like to quit!!
we discuss a particular case study when it’s posted on the forum and suggest/provide feedback based on that case study only.
